Modern Classics?

Fuengi

''Classic Albums" released since the millennium. There is a lot of rubbish talked about music ending in the 90's by people who can't be arsed to listen to anything new.

Here's four to kick off with, add your own below:

Funeral by Arcade Fire

Shields by Grizzly Bear

(Come on feel the) Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens

Southeastern by Jason Isbell

LesbianWithAGun

Hollandia by Ethan and The Reformation

Boromedic

Most things by The National tbh, Arcade Fire are a good shout too. 

earwighoney

I can't speak for anyone else but the first Pallbearer album 'Sorrow & Extinction' from 2012 I see to be a benchmark for doom metal. 

Jack Rose's Kensington Blues from 2005 again for the subgenre is seen to be a very important album for it's genre and launched a lot of guitarists in it's wake. 

BloodEagle

Converge - Jane Doe

Fall of Efrafa - Inle

Behemoth - The Satanist

Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

and loads of other stuff which im not interested in as well no doubt

earwighoney

BloodEagle said:

Converge - Jane Doe

Fall of Efrafa - Inle

Behemoth - The Satanist

Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

and loads of other stuff which im not interested in as well no doubt

Good call on the first and last of those (I've not heard the other 3). 

Agree about Jane Doe. Kurt Ballou's production deserves a special mention as well, he's been involved with a lot of great albums including Nails, Torche, Old Man Gloom to name a few. 

BloodEagle

Indeed - his production on the 2nd Nails album is the benchmark for that kind of stuff imo

Philly_Q

Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
Royal Thunder - CVI
Earthless - From the Ages
Black Moth - Condemned to Hope
Mars Red Sky - Stranded in Arcadia
Pallbearer - Heartless
My Sleeping Karma - Tri

I don't like bandying around words like "classic" but I certainly like these albums as much any anything else I've been listening to in the last 40 years.

equalsql

Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator

Royal Blood - Royal Blood

Tom Misch - Geography

Steve Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

The Black Crowes - Before The Frost ... Until The Freeze

These are all post 2000.. some may perhaps not be considered 'modern' but they are truly classic albums.

thecolourbox

I would go for (predictably) Elephant by White Stripes, but also less predictably 1989 by Taylor Swift

MagicPigDetective

My music DNA is hardwired to the 90’s. I have made an effort to keep up with new music since, tho a lot of new releases I listen to are by artists who began in the 90’s. There are a few great albums that I don’t listen to anymore as I associate them with difficult times in my life. Here are some of the albums that have stood the test of time:

War on Drugs - Deeper Understanding & Lost in the Dream
Kurt Vile - Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power. Peak SFA OK
Mastodon - any album. Taking metal to another level
Boards of Canada- Geogaddi. Creepy, the sound of the zone between sleep and awake.
Pallbearer - Heartless
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Radiohead - In Rainbows. A classic in every sense
Loyle Carner - Yesterdays Gone. My favourite hip hop album since the 90’s
Mark Lanegan Band -Gargoyle. He’s maturing like a fine vintage wine
Portishead - Third. Stunningly good, excellent avante garde guitars
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Gwenno - Le Kov. I love this album. Celtic kraut pop. 
Mistabishi - Drop. 

Stuckfast

on the basis of a random browse through my iTunes library:

Cass McCombs -- Catacombs

Elvis Perkins -- Ash Wednesday

Alasdair Roberts -- Too Long in This Condition

Field Music -- Measure

Four Tet -- Rounds

Midlake -- The Trials of Von Occupanther

Mountaineers -- Messy Century

but it's all opinion, innit? I can't stand either Arcade Fire or The National.

Fuengi

Stuckfast said:

on the basis of a random browse through my iTunes library:

Cass McCombs -- Catacombs

Elvis Perkins -- Ash Wednesday

Alasdair Roberts -- Too Long in This Condition

Field Music -- Measure

Four Tet -- Rounds

Midlake -- The Trials of Von Occupanther

Mountaineers -- Messy Century

but it's all opinion, innit? I can't stand either Arcade Fire or The National.

I love that Elvis Perkins album, there a re a couple of amazing tunes in it. Did you know his father was Anthony Perkins who played Norman Bates in Hitchcock's Psycho? While You Were Sleeping is about him. 

Midlake Van Occupanther is also a great shout. 

I'd add The Hazards of Love by Decemberists in a similar vein. 

Stuckfast

While You Were Sleeping is an incredible song, I sometimes think about learning it but not sure I could do it justice. Shame his second album was pants really.

CHRISB50

The XX - XX
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Florence - Lungs

Boromedic

Fuck it, I wasn't gonna say it, but.....

Permission To Land by The Darkness is a perfect hard rock album. Counts as post millennium too. The opening 5 songs are as strong as any of the other classics of the genre, Last Of Our Kind isn't far off neither. 

Game of opinions innit!

EricTheWeary

I guess it’s in the nature of what becomes a classic album that the passage of time helps define it so perhaps not many from the 21st century are really in for a shout now. If we are looking for recordings that have become influential and, to some extent, part of the public consciousness I guess it’s going to be choices like Elephant by The White Stripes ( how many WS alike careers have been launched on the back of that) and Back to Black by Amy Winehouse. 

Stuckfast

I think Songs for the Deaf has to be considered a classic -- it was a bit like Nevermind in that it made everything that came before it suddenly sound dated. Everyone I know who records rock music says that every band nowadays wants to get that sound.

stickyfiddle

QOTSA / SFTD is undoubtedly a modern classic.

Bon iver's 22, A Million and Bon Iver, Bon Iver also have to be on any sensible shortlist. I also agree with The National's last 4 records too, and it looks like their new one should be briiliant too, based on the songs released so far. 

And American Idiot is still fantastic 15+ years on. 

I want to say Ryan Adams' Cold Roses too, but I'm feeling a bit iffy on that of late, for obvious reasons. 

ICBM

Not mentioned so far...

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Shakira - Laundry Service

Evanescence - Fallen

Muse - Absolution

The Killers - Hot Fuss


(And if I had to pick one as the classic album of the 21st Century so far, it would be Laundry Service! Sorry . But it is... )

stickyfiddle

ICBM said:

Not mentioned so far...

U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind

Shakira - Laundry Service

Evanescence - Fallen

Muse - Absolution

The Killers - Hot Fuss

(And if I had to pick one as the classic album of the 21st Century so far, it would be Laundry Service! Sorry . But it is... )

I had a feeling if I omitted those 3 you'd add them  

All genuine classics. ATYCLB is as good as Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby imo - absolutely their 3rd best album, just in front of Unforgettable Fire